Christmas, signed

by Eleanor Roosevelt by Eleanor Roosevelt, Fritz Kredel

$3,500 · Offered by Churchill Book Collector

First edition · Signed

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First edition. Hardcover. This is a lovely, signed first edition of then-First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt’s Christmas story for children. The author signed “Eleanor Roosevelt” in blue ink on the half-title page. Condition is fine in a near fine dust jacket. The illustrated binding is tight and immaculately clean with unfaded hues, sharp corners, and no appreciable wear.

• Binding: Hardcover

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